RHoK at Trento is hosted by the ICT4G group of Fondazione Bruno Kessler and supported by the University of Trento and Informatici Senza Frontiere. Inspired by the problems, 46 people showed up to hack for humanity, exceeding the initial expectations!  A remote team, composed of five very motivated people is collaborating from Maputo, Mozambique.

 

The first part of saturday was spent forming teams and start hacking the problems up. Nine problems are currently being worked on: Seed Swap App, Peer learning & peer networking for pineapple farmers, Smart urban planning, Assessing (and aggregating) beehive health, Disease / Sickness Reporting System (DSRS), Happy Bird Mobile App, Improving public transportation reliability to encourage people reduce their carbon footprint, Lost and Found.

 

The hackers were fueled by caffeine, snacks, and delicatessen offered by the hosts. Saturday night all the hackers discussed their problems over a pizza we got from a local restaurant ... one team kept hacking till 5am this morning!

 

Some initial pictures attached to this post: stay tuned on Twitter and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoktrento) for more.